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Invitation to the theatre / George R. Kernodle.
LIBRA - Special PN1655 .K4 1967
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kernodle, George R. (George Riley), 1907-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- Theater.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- White, [Isle] (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 677 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1967]
- Contents:
- The theatre of realism
- The theatre of romance: romantic drama and the musical
- The theatre of romance: opera and dance
- The theatre of exaltation: Greek tragedy and the modern festival theatre
- The theatre of exaltation: Medieval, Elizabethan, and neoclassic tragedy
- The theatre of exaltation: modern tragedy and poetic drama
- The theatre of laughter: farce
- The theatre of laughter: high comedy
- The theatre of disruption
- Planning the production
- The rehearsal: director and actor
- The performance: actor and audience
- Design for the theatre
- New stages and theatre auditoriums
- Fifty years of motion pictures
- The art of the screen
- Movies as a minority art
- Theatre for the mass audience
- The critic's role.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Ex Libris [Isle] White" on front flyleaf.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has staining on front flyleaf and half-title (possibly from adhesive?).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kernodle, George Riley, 1907- Invitation to the theatre.
- ISBN:
- 9780155469211
- 0155469215
- OCLC:
- 265862
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